A/N: Guys! I love all the support. It really increases chances of an update, just saying ;). Anyway, I hope you guys like how this story is progressing. I would like to say this story is not going to be as Stephenie Meyer's Twilight or the tv show The Vampire Diaries. It is completely AU. So, I hope no worries there.

Summary: Caroline's cousin comes to visit, forever? Who is the brunette that came storming into their lives?

Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters... sadly.

Chapter 4-

Damon would sit in the tree in the sheriff's backyard listening to Isabella. He would watch her. He would sit staring at her as she mumbled as she read a book. He would watch as she would stare into space in a daze and shiver as if something was creeping up on her. He would watch as she would come out the shower with her skin glistening and flush from her shower.

He had to admit that from his interactions with her, which was few, he liked her. She held herself as a woman, a foolish one, though.

She was a mystery to him. She was an enigma. She was a puzzle he wanted to figure out and complete but just didn't know how. Pieces wouldn't fit together and it infuriated him. It infuriated him so much that he was standing in the rain on the sheriff's porch waiting for the young woman from her impromptu meeting with the bastard hybrid.

He felt a pull towards her and he had this overwhelming urge to tell her about himself. He felt the urge to tell of his past mistakes and to be different around her.

He didn't understand why he was feeling those urges because he was a flirt and manwhore. He loved all woman and admired all of their curves, lips, hair. But now, he only wanted to admire Bella's.

And that pissed him off.

She seemed to draw all types of people to her and he needed something, an anchor, a reason to hold onto to Bella. he wasn't kidding her when he said he would change her. He felt that if she came to him asking he wouldn't be able to deny her. Just like now as she pulled a rental car into the driveway and made her way to him.

He would give her the world if only she knew.


Bella was ushered to a living area that had all of her favorite knick kancks. She smiled at her brother's curtsy. She knew both sides of him but he always showed his loving and caring side to him. Except maybe now, especially since she got involved with a Cold One and didn't invite him to my wedding.

"See something you like, love?" she smirked as she turned to face her brother.

"What no yelling?"

He smirked with a glint in his eyes, "That will come later, love, but as much as I miss you, I have a problem." He poured him a glass of scotch and her a whiskey.

She took the drink with an apprehensive look on her face.

"Nik, what did you do?" she asked as she raised the glass to her lips to take a sip of the heavenly brown liquid.

His next words made her choke on her favorite drink,"I found my mate and locked her in a room somewhere in this house."

"What do you mean you locked her in a room? Nik, she's your mate!"

"I know! But I didn't know what else to do, she was going to reject me!" He yelled back at his sister, anger rising from the issue with Hayley and Bella's ex-lover. He wanted to protect his sister and also wanted his mate, companion, but it seemed fate had other plans.

"You need to talk with her before she really hates you, Nik. She won't reject you." When she looked at him with those big doe eyes, he felt he could breathe again. He felt the grin on his face appear and felt so grateful that his sister was within his reach again. There were countless nights where he fought the urge to track her down and never let her out of his sight.

He realized he should have.

She frowned,"Yes, we will talk later, but go to your mate now. Your just stalling."


As brown eyes met blue eyes, the earth cried out in joy, because it was always hard to find your true mate.

But it seemed possible for them. All four of them.

A/N: I hope you guys like this update. It is a lot of dialogue but I am just trying to move the story along. You guys wanted an update and here it is. I hope I didn't disappoint. Let me know what you guys think.